A search is underway on the Ottawa River for a man from Quyon who has been missing since the evening of July 27.
According to a Monday morning press release from the MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais police, the 53-year-old man jumped into the water from his pontoon boat around 5:30 p.m. on Sunday evening to try to help a woman who appeared to be in distress near Mohr Island, a couple of kilometres downriver of Quyon.
He was not wearing a life jacket, so sank underwater, police spokesperson Josée Forest reported.
She said an intensive search was quickly launched by boaters and firefighters from Pontiac and Ottawa, and that the Ottawa Police searched the area well into the night, but the man has not yet been found.
The woman, however, was rescued by another person and is doing well, according to Forest.
Police from the MRC des Collines and the Sûreté du Québec will continue the search for the man today.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.